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1935

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2025

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Cover, Sarah Hewitt Memorial Library, Chronicle of the Museum for the Arts of Decoration of Cooper Union, Vol. 1, No. 1

This is a Cover. It is dated April 1935. Its medium is reproduction. It is a part of the department.

This library, pictured on the cover of the Chronicle, was installed in The Cooper Union Museum in 1932 in memory of Sarah and houses rare books, including the Decloux collection of books of design. The design of the room was based on one in the Versailles Bibliothèque and was originally erected in the Hewitt home at 9 Lexington Avenue.

It is credited Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Sarah & Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum.

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